Northern Exposure

Northern Exposure, American television comedy-drama series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (now CBS Corporation) for six seasons (1990–95). The program won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for best drama (1993–94) and the 1992 Emmy Award in the same category.

Northern Exposure was set in the small fictional town of Cicely, located in the Alaskan wilderness. Dispatched there was Joel Fleischman (played by Rob Morrow), a physician who was indentured to the state of Alaska, which had paid his way through medical school at Columbia University. Immediately, Fleischman, an ambitious, cosmopolitan Jewish New Yorker, felt out of his element and ... (100 of 282 words)